PODCASTS
Hi-Phi Nation is a story-driven philosophy podcast. The first episode is about Hostile Design, which is a type of urban design that attempts to exclude people from particular areas of cities. In that episode I interview Leah Borromeo who turned anti-homeless spikes into beds with Space not Spikes, Rowland Atkinson, Chair of Inclusive Societies at the University of Sheffield, and Victor Callister Deputy Director of Architecture at the Design Council in London. And Barry and I consider the relationship between hostile design and freedom.
The second episode is about animal activism and civil and uncivil disobedience. David and I interview animal activists, animal rights campaigners, and the farmers on the other side, including Chris Delforce, Lauren Gazzola, David Jochinke, Joanne Lee, Paula Hough, Jacy Reese. As well as philosophers of civil and uncivil disobedience - Kimberley Brownlee, Candice Delmas, Clare McCausland - and philosophers with views on the effectiveness of activism - Peter Singer, Brian Leiter, Tyler Paytas.
EXHIBITION
In October 2022 I curated and ran an exhibition, Stories of Gender in West Yorkshire at Leeds City Museum in Central Leeds with Leeds Museums and Galleries. The museum featured interactive oral histories from trans people in West Yorkshire, clothing, badges, and placards from the West Yorkshire Queer Stories collection, as well as zines and other work by local trans artists, an interactive ‘My Gender Mixtape’ activity, and interactive video interviews with trans philosophers about gender identity and gender. The exhibition used materials from the West Yorkshire Queer Stories Archive and Cat Lane’s Breaking the Binary exhibition. It was attended by over 400 people over two days. Materials from the exhibition will be available here soon.
